Tuesday 21 August 2012

Those Days Are More Than Just Days




As I head for the exit at the Green Man festival I pass the dying embers of last nights fire, the seating logs appear empty, but I can see the ghosts of the weekend, I can hear the stories and the laughs and Richman dancing in the lesbian bar, and I can feel the sorrow setting in as the time to say goodbye sneaks up with the fading smoke.

“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - It’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and its good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies”

There's No Beautiful Way to Say Goodbye - Television Personalities 
How to Say Goodbye – Magnetic Fields
We Already Said Goodbye – The Broken Family Band
Everytime We Say Goodbye – April Showers
The Ghost of New Orleans – Ballboy
Fly Into the Mystery – Jonathan Richman
Those Days, Those Nights – The Notes
Saying Goodbye – Frida Hyvönen
Farewell – Soda Shop
I Was Running – Alpaca Sports
Sorrow – Life Without Buildings


Saturday 4 August 2012

The Comet Returns




I woke up to a comic sized package waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs, but when I opened it to read about the latest escapades of Booster Gold and his Justice League International I was in for a shock. For lurking inside the package wasn’t a comic, it was something far stranger and magical; the sound of a ghost train slithering through a spaghetti western with eerie ad-libs and shouts spewing over the sides like Bonejangles and his Bone Boys doing “Ghost Riders in the Sky”. 

Of course, it’s the new epic Flipron single “The Comet Returns”, the ad-libs and shouts coming from the legendary Specials front man Neville Staple. It will be released 10th September via Tiny Dog Records with the new album Firework Shoes following in October, so save your pennies to get a seat on the ride!